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It could also be a bit ageist, indirectly. By qualifying older hires as adult supervision, companies might unconsciously avoid hiring older employees for positi
by beager 9y ago
It could also be a bit ageist, indirectly. By qualifying older hires as adult supervision, companies might unconsciously avoid hiring older employees for positions where there is not a perceived lack of maturity, or hire workers only for the purpose of addressing deficiencies in maturity.
- taneq 9y ago"Adult supervision" refers (at least in my experience) more to guidance from people who are focused, results-oriented, practical, and experienced in using process and procedure to drive quality and efficiency. One example I know personally is a company where the senior staff were all in their 60s but have been winging it since their late 30s and had very little documentation and no real method. They hired an operations manager in their 40s who managed to reduce the amount of overtime required to produce the same result by about 30%, purely by eliminating busywork and making sure everyone knew what they were doing. In this case, the operations manager was the "adult supervision" required.